US Patent Issued to Canon on Feb. 24 for "Printing apparatus, printing system and method of controlling printing apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,903, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Printing apparatus, printing system and method of controlling printing apparatus" was invented by Izumi Fujiwara (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a printing apparatus, an ink tank holds ink to be supplied to a print head. Ink can be replenished in the ink tank by a plurality of types of ink bottles of different ink capacities for the same color of ink. A management unit manages information for an ink consumption amount, which is an amount of ink consumed in the ink tank. An updating unit updates the information for the ink consumption amount based on an in...